October 15, 2025
We are excited to announce that Zaya Delgerjargal’s film, Herders at the Edge, won Best Short Documentary at the Climate Film Festival in New York, the largest climate-focused film festival in the United States. Herders at the Edge has also been awarded the Best Environmental Short Documentary award from Italy’s Life After Oil International Film Festival (2025) and a 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Award.
Delgerjargal created the film with support from an Environmental Humanities grant as well as the Yale School of the Environment, Pulitzer Center, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, and The Mobley Fund.
Delgerjargal with her editor, Amartuvshin Enkh-Amgalan.
Delgerjargal giving a short speech after receiving the Best Short Documentary award. Photo credit: Julie Thompson.
Delgerjargal was on the Animal Science Short Docs panel immediately after the screening. She was seated with other filmmakers from her block. Photo credit: Sydney Hartley.
Herders at the Edge was screened as part the “Animal Science Short Docs” block.
The Herders at the Edge movie poster.
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Public Humanities Grant